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Title: Among the Enigmas
Author: Robert Jesse Murphy
ISBN: 9781948017527
Publisher: DOS Madres Pr
Published: 2019
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 61
Condition Note: Signed by the author. Inscribed to Edward Halsey Foster. Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: Poetry. To spend time with Robert Murphy's AMONG THE ENIGMAS is to be in the presence of a great soul. At the center of Murphy's vision--for he is, make no mistake, a visionary poet in the line of Blake, in touch with truths that exist far beyond the page--is a battle between stasis and dynamism, between appearance and reality, between Truth and a diversity of truths. In his stunningly bleak psalm, 'As if Cattle, ' Murphy observes the herd in 'bland bowed calm' as long as its 'hunger, thirst, or fear is slaked, '--that is, until it meets its mortal fate. 'Jumping Jehoshaphat!' he exclaims in 'The Appearance of it All, ' one of the volume's finest poems, 'Only a Holy Fool / Would come down here' to attempt to reason with common sense and the world of appearances. While Murphy's poems are animated by a dynamic spirit, they're thoroughly skeptical of received truths. That skepticism breeds a black humor and a wild, Joycean paronomasia. The punning Bursts forth in Murphy's major sequence of nine 'Imp' poems, which importunately explore, in the persona of a Socratic inchling/inkling, various imponderables, impositions, impostures, and a great deal more. Adding to the serious fun is the engrossing artwork of David Golder, which engages with, rather than illustrates, Murphy's verse.--David M. K
Author: Robert Jesse Murphy
ISBN: 9781948017527
Publisher: DOS Madres Pr
Published: 2019
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 61
Condition Note: Signed by the author. Inscribed to Edward Halsey Foster. Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: Poetry. To spend time with Robert Murphy's AMONG THE ENIGMAS is to be in the presence of a great soul. At the center of Murphy's vision--for he is, make no mistake, a visionary poet in the line of Blake, in touch with truths that exist far beyond the page--is a battle between stasis and dynamism, between appearance and reality, between Truth and a diversity of truths. In his stunningly bleak psalm, 'As if Cattle, ' Murphy observes the herd in 'bland bowed calm' as long as its 'hunger, thirst, or fear is slaked, '--that is, until it meets its mortal fate. 'Jumping Jehoshaphat!' he exclaims in 'The Appearance of it All, ' one of the volume's finest poems, 'Only a Holy Fool / Would come down here' to attempt to reason with common sense and the world of appearances. While Murphy's poems are animated by a dynamic spirit, they're thoroughly skeptical of received truths. That skepticism breeds a black humor and a wild, Joycean paronomasia. The punning Bursts forth in Murphy's major sequence of nine 'Imp' poems, which importunately explore, in the persona of a Socratic inchling/inkling, various imponderables, impositions, impostures, and a great deal more. Adding to the serious fun is the engrossing artwork of David Golder, which engages with, rather than illustrates, Murphy's verse.--David M. K
